The Crime Desk: The plane carrying Sheikh Hasina, who has just resigned from the post of Prime Minister, has landed in New Delhi, the capital of India, according to the country’s media, India Today Live.
According to Live, Sheikh Hasina’s plane landed at 5:36 local time at the army’s Hindon Airbus in Ghaziabad, near New Delhi. He was welcomed by Indian Army officials. He will leave for London from there.
A source said Sheikh Hasina will stay in Delhi for a few days. He will then go to London.
Earlier, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina escaped from Dhaka and landed in the northeastern city of Agartala in India. On Monday afternoon, Indian broadcaster CNN-News Eighteen reported this information.
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, who has been in power for 15 and a half years, has left the country after resigning due to a massive mass movement. He left the country around 2.30 p.m. on Monday, August 5.
Sheikh Hasina had to step down amid clashes across the country and the deaths of over 300 people after the student movement that started 36 days ago to demand quota reform in government jobs turned into a movement to topple the government.
The BBC wrote that Sheikh Hasina left the country by helicopter. His sister, Sheikh Rehana, is also with him. They went to Agartala, India.
Meanwhile, the people who took control of Dhaka in total non-cooperation also occupied the Prime Minister’s official residence, Ganobhaban. Bangladesh has witnessed their frenzied joy holding the flag there.
Army chief Waqar-uz-Zaman said that he would take the initiative to form an interim government by meeting with representatives of various political parties and civil society.
He said that every murder and injustice will be judged. Peace will return to the country with everyone’s efforts.
21 years after Bangladesh’s independence struggle hero Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed in 1975, his daughter Sheikh Hasina won the 1996 elections and formed the first government.
Then he won again in the 2008 elections and ruled the country for 15 consecutive years. Although he managed to retain power in the last three elections amid various controversies, this time he had to leave the post and the country amid the mass movement.
